Today we’re super excited to announce the launch of our first direct to consumer product, now available for free on Android — download it from Google Play right here and read about it on the product page! Until now, most app search has been based on titles and keywords, which requires users to know the…

Today we’re thrilled to announce we’ve officially closed our latest round of funding! Series C is led by Alibaba Group, with new investor GGV Capital, and participation from existing investors Atlantic Bridge, Innovation Endeavors, Translink Capital, US Venture Partners, and WI Harper. “Next year, 95% of the world’s population will have mobile access, and by…

This post is part 2 of a Q&A with Jeff Fan, Quixey’s Principal Designer. Today he talks about some of the new features on Quixey.com. Tile View Throughout our user testing, we noticed a pattern amongst a majority of our users. When evaluating apps, users usually look at screenshots before descriptions or reviews. Screenshots communicate…

Mountain View, Calif, September 19, 2013 – Today Quixey, The Search Engine for Apps, announced that it has won the Telecom Council 2013 SPIFFY Zephyr Award for Best Mobile Opportunity. The SPIFFY Awards recognize the most outstanding telecommunications start-ups as judged by the members of the Service Providers Forum (SPiF) of the Telecom Council of…

Today we officially launched AppURL, an open initiative to connect native apps to the web with http URLs. Traditionally, a user has to manually launch an app and manually navigate to the right content within the app – with AppURL, deep linking is enabled to content inside apps, and works seamlessly across all devices and platforms. Currently, the…

A snippet from a talk by Christian Rohrer, McAfee’s Chief Design Officer in Consumer and Mobile, on the importance of user research in experience design. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2tUps3gDoI[/youtube]

Today we’re proud to announce our partnership with DuckDuckGo! We’re now powering app search for the alternative search engine that brings privacy, less spam, and immediate solutions to its users via the “instant answers” box at the top of its SERP. Monthly, DuckDuckGo has been seeing over 45 million users, and more keep switching over…

CTO Liron Shapira gave this tech talk about the Functional Web at Box headquarters in Los Altos on Feb 27, 2013. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW525XaMV8A[/youtube] The Functional Web is also explained in this blog post.

Is there an app for that? Increasingly, this has become the go-to question for solving everyday problems in our lives. Typically, when users search for apps, they enter keywords like “tools” or “productivity” into their phone’s app store search bar. This is the model Apple started with the App Store in 2008, and others have…